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Extracts from Looking by JBP.


 

 

 

Impossible

 

The impossible may have its reasons

     to occur

 

 

 

 

Glimpses

 

A conumdrum of twigs and branches.

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Embittered by frost, earth grows miserly.

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Proverb: The spirit is willing, but the legs are short.

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A Diesel tried to start, and stuck. All its teeth rattled and it brayed loudly.

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An oak grumpily consented to flourish.

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Shivering air imagines snow.

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The grasses move in faint, wagging affirmation.

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A meditation of white roses.

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Rooks kark their wrangle in the wood...

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A quiet ambience of old thistles.

 

 

Irony 1

 

Reduced by irony

He doubts the grace of joy,

Which vanishes in fresh gold light.

 

 

 

 

Irony 2

 

Irony's a law built-in

Deep in the womb where genes begin:

Man must lose so God can win.

 

 

 

 

The Quick and the Dead

 

Who is that fellow with the stick,

Halted by the shadow of a tree?

He bears no resemblance to me.

Gold sunshine plays some trick;

I'm held in shadowland to see:

Life's still living, though not 'quick'.

 

 

 

The Bather

 

He struts, stiff and stringy, into the sea,

Ducks like a puppet under the strolling waves

And returns to port, his duty done.

 

 


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